Quotes About Belonging

every being loves ther own self more than anything else, for this is only natural. We love our children and our wealth only because we think of them as parts of ourselves, as belonging to us. Thus men never love their children, the homes or their gold as much as they do their own bodies, their selves. For these are never entirely identified with the self, but only perceived as belonging to the self.

What I mean is that we all exists as parts of groups and collectives larger than ourselves. Tribes. Communities. Organizations. Institutions. Families. Nations. We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of groups of humans cooperating. Those groups are organisms in their own rights. We are their components.

I wear my politics like hand-me down clothes: some bits feel like they don't fit me properly, but I expect I'll grow into them, trusting that because they're from my parents they've come from a good source.

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

It is the little platoons, rather than the great society, which command attention in this new version of the national past; the spirit of place rather than that of the common law or the institutions of representative government.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

We no longer belong here, we are mutants, and our only choice is to become even more mutant so that we eventually leave and disappear from this region. We are nothing now but the residue of a defeated, conquered past and we are stubbornly holding on to old creeds, a few archaic rituals and the facade of western modernity.

Richmond was my birthplace, but it was merely my launching pad, no home.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Y tú de qué lado estás? —Del mismo que he estado siempre: del nuestro. —¿Y ése qué lado es? —El de los que van a salir de aquí.

calling a subdivision a "community," for that is precisely what it is not.

We are an open mixing place for the general public, but we are strongly committed to bringing together people who may not normally spend time together in the hope that they will become friends, seeking deeper relationships with each other and with the community. A sign I once saw in an old café window proclaimed, "There are no strangers here, just friends who haven't met," and that pretty much captures what we're about.

If God has drawn you to himself, then he has put you 'in Christ Jesus'.

I think as a kid, you just want to be accepted by the people around you and largely I was.

When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

I'll never say good bye to TV. I belong there.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.

I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn't do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that's where my roots are.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

Well, my parents live in Cambridge, Maryland.

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.